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Living the DIY Wedding: The Cake

We've finally reached dessert in a series of posts about making my wedding a couple of weeks ago. I've already written about the main dishes and the accessorizing of the fish. Even though I knew it would be a lot, I felt comfortable planning for and preparing the savory end of things. Baking, however, is more of a wild card for me. As a person who doesn't even own measuring spoons, specificities do not interest me. That approach can be a bonus in the kitchen, yielding great innovations...except when it comes to making a cake...

Living the DIY Wedding: Smoked Fish and a Woven Mat of Leeks

I cooked all the food for my own wedding (50 attendees) a couple of weeks ago. Well, I didn't cook everything. I bought 25 pounds of smoked fish from Acme Smoked Fish in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. They smoke all the fish there and I trust them to do it just right.

I overestimated a little in terms of people's capacity to eat smoked fish, however. I bought a 1/2 pound per person but I would do 1/3 pound per person next time...

Living the DIY Wedding: The Food

I got married a week ago. Instead of the usual fears -commitment, weather, stepkids' sabotage - I spent the weeks leading up to the event wondering if I was capable of cooking a meal for 50 hungry people. Just days before the Sunday afternoon wedding, friends were still trying to dissuade me from going through with it....

Small Cool 2007: Hark! An extension is upon us!

Contest Master here. For my first major act as Contest Master, I hereby decree the new deadline for submissions to the 2007 Smallest Coolest Contest to be midnight (eastern standard time) Monday, April 16th.

While I know that many of you are waiting til tomorrow to submit your great small spaces, there are likely many others who haven't had the time to get it together.

We will still start posting entries next Monday, April 9th, and we will still start the voting then.

Please don't delay. Don't underestimate your talents. And don't worry . It'll be fun. Share your world with us. Enter your home, kitchen, nursery, or office/tech environment now!

If you have any questions, send them to contestmaster AT apartmenttherapy DOT com